General anesthesia remains a major challenge for patients entering an operating room. In spite of an apparent fall in fatalities accompanying anesthesia use since the late 1940s, worries about

Connectivity from a central lab to point-of-care made a long way from the early days in the 1990s. Today, while issues with connectivity, soft- and hardware are not as troublesome, labs still fall short of the ultimate goal of using such devices by plug-and-play with their existing IT infrastructure. However, most of today